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- catalog abstract "This book is a "review of the impact of European colonialization on the cultural and natural landscapes of native North America. In this text, ...the author has focused on rare & neglected first-hand French and Spanish source materials to provide us with ecologically and ethnographically rich, stunningly detailed and articulate portraits of the American Landscape, and the culturally sophisticated Native land-management systems which were already in place at the dawn of Euro-American history. Far from a vast and open wilderness's America was, at its dawn, already a human environment, as Sauer so clearly demonstrates, and our history as a people would swing on the ability of our early 'Founding fathers,' often no more than glorified European real estate agents, to perceive the intricacies of these eco-systems as they lay before them like an open book"--Back cover.".
- catalog contributor b1543178.
- catalog coverage "America Discovery and exploration French.".
- catalog coverage "America Discovery and exploration Spanish.".
- catalog coverage "North America History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
- catalog coverage "North America History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
- catalog created "1980.".
- catalog date "1980".
- catalog date "1980.".
- catalog dateCopyrighted "1980.".
- catalog description "Bibliography: p. 255-259.".
- catalog description "This book is a "review of the impact of European colonialization on the cultural and natural landscapes of native North America. In this text, ...the author has focused on rare & neglected first-hand French and Spanish source materials to provide us with ecologically and ethnographically rich, stunningly detailed and articulate portraits of the American Landscape, and the culturally sophisticated Native land-management systems which were already in place at the dawn of Euro-American history. Far from a vast and open wilderness's America was, at its dawn, already a human environment, as Sauer so clearly demonstrates, and our history as a people would swing on the ability of our early 'Founding fathers,' often no more than glorified European real estate agents, to perceive the intricacies of these eco-systems as they lay before them like an open book"--Back cover.".
- catalog extent "295 p. :".
- catalog hasFormat "Seventeenth century North America.".
- catalog identifier "091366622X (pbk.)".
- catalog identifier "0913666238 :".
- catalog isFormatOf "Seventeenth century North America.".
- catalog issued "1980".
- catalog issued "1980.".
- catalog language "eng".
- catalog publisher "Berkeley : Turtle Island,".
- catalog relation "Seventeenth century North America.".
- catalog spatial "America Discovery and exploration French.".
- catalog spatial "America Discovery and exploration Spanish.".
- catalog spatial "North America History Colonial period, approximately 1600-1775.".
- catalog spatial "North America History Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.".
- catalog subject "970.02 19".
- catalog subject "Civilization, Modern 17th century.".
- catalog subject "E45 .S28 1980".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America First contact with Europeans.".
- catalog subject "Indians of North America History.".
- catalog title "Seventeenth century North America / Carl O. Sauer.".
- catalog type "History. fast".
- catalog type "text".